Founder & Director: Dr. Xin ZHAO

• Associate Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)

• Postdoc of Harvard University Medical School

• PhD of University College London

• Published >100 articles in prestigious journals (H index 49 in Google Scholar Citations) including Nature Materials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Materials Today, Advanced Functional Materials, Biomaterials, Smaill, etc.

• Awarded over 10 grants (⁓15 million) as principal investigator from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF), Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong (ITF), etc.

• Recipient of the highly competitive Collaborative Research Fund (2021, PI),  National Excellent Young Scientist Award of 2021 (港澳優青) and Mid-Career Award of 2022 Chinese Association for Biomaterials